Rooney Row Resolved

The FAI officers last night announced a resolution of the dispute that split the five-man officer board after six hours of debate behind closed doors.

Agreement was announced on a salary package for new Chief Executive Fran Rooney and the board of management agreed to recommend the proposed new rule changes to an extraordinary general meeting of the FAI Council on September 12. The rule changes will lead to a total revamp of the management structure of the association and will include a reduction in the number of members on the board of management from 22 to 10.

The meeting on the rule changes was scheduled many weeks ago and the subject matter was to focus solely on the proposals carried unanimously at the FAI's AGM in Galway in July. But this was overtaken in the past week by a major split amongst the five members of the Officer Board.